Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Protoscutellidae
Alternative combination: Scutella mississippiensis
Full reference: W. B. Clark and M. W. Twitchell. 1915. The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 54:1-341
Belongs to Protoscutella according to C. W. Cooke 1959
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Cooke 1942 and Kier 1980
Sister taxa: Protoscutella conradi, Protoscutella pentagonium, Protoscutella plana
Subtaxa: Protoscutella mississippiensis mississippiensis Protoscutella mississippiensis rosehillensis
Type specimen: USNM 137655, a test. Its type locality is USGS Loc. 115, 116, 129 - Cemetery Creek [Winona Fm], which is in a Lutetian coastal sandstone in the Winona Formation of Mississippi.
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (11: Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas collections)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
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